Coming down heavily on the rising spectre of political violence in the State with the change of guard, BRS working president and former Minister KT Rama Rao on Sunday sounded a warning to the Congress government against encouraging factionist tendencies that enjoyed no space in the political landscape of the Telangana during the 10-year BRS rule.
Condemning the murder of BRS activist and retired army jawan, Chikkepalli Mallesh in Gantravpalli village, allegedly by Congress activists on December 29, he said such incidents of violence would not augur well in a democratic setup. Drawing the attention of the Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and Kollapur MLA and Minister Jupalli Krishna Rao to the gruesome killing of the BRS functionary, he said the BRS had never encouraged political violence.